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Edwin Kan, professor of electrial and computer engineering, is leading a $1.5 million grant to develop a people counting technology in residential and commercial buildings as an input to energy-conser...

While engineers have had success building tiny, insect-like robots, programming them to behave autonomously like real insects continues to present technical challenges. A group of Cornell engineers ha...

Andrej Singer has joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Cornell as an assistant professor after completing a post-doc at the University of California—San D...

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Alumni Spotlights

Breaking the rules to make life better in Tanzania For many students and parents there are simple “rules for college:” you apply to several schools, you weigh your options, you enroll at the school th...

Breaking the rules to push the limits of imagination To play music, you need an instrument, right? You can pluck a string or vibrate a reed or strike a surface or force air through an opening. But whi...

Breaking the Rules to Advance Science and Improve Lives

Discovery stretches across disciplines to find surprising answers to complex and challenging problems in such fields as nanoscience, biomedical engineering, molecular and cellular biology, advanced materials, and information science. Come find out for yourself!

Please register at https://cornell.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8G2k4HLCCMBuKt7 Markowitz portfolio optimization was a key advancement in finance, but is fundamentally limited by key assumptions. Namely,...

The do-it-yourself attitude runs deep in Lois Pollack. When she was a child, her physicist father encouraged her to build simple electronic circuits or to work alongside him in his wood shop. “Growing...